This portfolio is shared with you by Jeff Greenberg, a self-taught crafts artist and woodworker who makes unique and custom functional and sculptural art. Jeff resides in Stamford, Connecticut and intends to bring an artistic flair to each piece. He sees flow as the common theme of all his work. Pushing boundaries of form, function and material each piece is an exploration of the possibilities within each project. He hopes to delight each person who comes in contact with his work. Jeff is constantly designing and making new pieces of furniture and wood art, and is available for custom projects.
For custom projects/inquiries, e-mail Jeff at woodartist1000@gmail.com.
Aqua and stone embedded in maple in flowing patterns inspired by the natural movements of water in rivers and streams.
This beautiful maple table, measuring 60" x 40" features flowing ribbons of catalyzed resin with embedded river rocks and vivid blue pigments, which were inspired by scenes of nature.
Detail of top of kitchen table.
Detail of leg of kitchen table.
This beautiful table. 42" x 42", is of maple with flowing ribbons of inset stone in catalyzed resin. Its simple steel supports contribute to a modern theme.
This close up shows the full thickness of the stone and resin inclusions.
These two tables, 35" x 13" and 24" x 13", are built of hard maple. They both feature design elements of flowing catalyzed resin. Their legs resemble tree limbs and, some people think, deer legs.
This beautiful table features two flowing ribbons of blue catalyzed resin and legs that seem to be both natural tree limbs and animal legs, at the same time.
This picture give you a good view of the unique legs of this table.
Detail of hall table
This cherry table has organically flowing base and a flowing top design that is better seen in the top detail picture.
This table was built to nest under the Hall Table. It features a single blue ribbon and beautiful branch-like legs.
Detail of leg of snack table.
This end table was built with a 45 degree angle to fit into a bay window. The curves are tinted catalyzed resin. I built a light into the base of the table. In this picture the light isn't on.
In this picture the built in light is on.
I enjoy making pieces for specific locations. This table was built to go next to a sofa in front of the TV. But there was a complication: a closet with sliding doors is close to the sofa. The extension on this table provides a place for a drink or the remote while not blocking access to the closet.
This bespoke desk, 44" x 18", with a maple top and cherry legs, was designed and built for an executive who frequently works from home. She has a fondness for butterflies so I surprised her with the one in the corner. Take a look at the close up below.
I built this table from 2 x 4 construction lumber. We can build beautiful things from simple material.
This beautifully spalted maple slab calls to mind the American southwest. The inlaid butterflies are turquoise and the clock marks are chunks of solid malachite. I use clock movements with sweep second hands which means there is no ticking sound; it's silent. This clock measures 15" wide x 13" high. Because every piece of wood I use is different (and I only use interesting wood) every piece is unique.
This beautiful gate has sapling branches screwed to a frame of pressure treated lumber. Rope is woven through the branches and then soaked with marine grade varnish.
This is a detail of the maple clock with two butterflies. You can see the details of the turquoise butterfly and two of the malachite clock marks.
This beautiful piece suggests rivers flowing through the satin smooth wood. Maple, 32" round, resin with pigments.
This beautiful piece is maple with flowing inclusions of tinted catalyzed resin over metallic foil. It measures 25" x 49".
This lovely piece was carved from a single piece of maple, painted black. It measures 11" wide x 48" high.
Curving Stone 1 explores the interplay of maple with light and dark stones. It measures 49" x 22" and is beautiful vertically as well as horizontally.
This beautiful piece, measuring 22" x 29", combines the sinuous shapes of the 'flowing' resin with the natural beauty of curley maple.
This is the 4th in the series. It features cherry wood with sinuous light and dark stones. It measures 33" x 15 1/2".
This piece, 49" x 19", explores curves with shimmering metallic blue shapes.
This beautiful, flowing piece is cut from vibrant curly maple. It measures 29" x 26".
Carved maple, connected yet still individual.
Wood burning on birch plywood
This circular piece brings to mind the circular nature of life. It was carved from Honduran mahogany, diameter 29".
Light mahogany, frame size 11" x 21"
Round piece, approximately 24" diameter
This oval mirror, 12" x 36", is carved from Philippine mahogany. This graceful design is beautiful in a vertical and horizontal position.
Mahogany 1" thick, approx 37" x 14"
This wall hanging was created by inlaying malachite dust to form the pine needles and wood burning the branches. It is on curly maple and measures 19" x 13".
Mahogany, 1", 36" x 14"
Detail from wall hanging 27" x 4"
This carving, 21" x 38", invites the hand to follow its smooth curves. It winds and weaves as you travel from the center to the curly maple rim.
This outdoor sculpture was crafted from a common maple log.
It seems at home in the garden.
Interweave 3 continues the development of the theme of natural found materials. These autumn leaves and stones are set in a beautiful curving frame of cherry. The piece measures 36" x 15".
Light mahogany, frame size 38" x 12"
Spalted maple with blue intrusion 18" x 9". This beautiful slab, with a live edge on the bottom, is from a big, old maple tree that fell in a storm and lay in the woods for a year before I came upon it.
The oak leaves on this cabinet end are malachite, inlaid into the wood.
Walnut mirror 10" x 18". I cut this slab of walnut from a downed tree along the side of a road in Westport, CT
A special request from a friend, symbolizing how her family is made of separate individuals joined by blood and love.
The leaves are inlaid malachite, the branches are burned into the wood. 12" x 25"
I wanted to create a piece that had an overall arc so I started by cutting an arc out of the bottom and gluing it to the top. You can see the glue line. This piece is 1" thick mahagony, about 36" wide by 14" high.
I let my imagination flow as I experiment, drawing different designs with chalk. In this piece I was experimenting with the direction and density of the movement. I'm not in a rush as I do this. Sometimes after laying down a design I'll be vaguely dissatisfied with it. I'll 'wipe the slate clean' and start over. Usually, after I have a design I'm happy with, I put it in the house for a few days, looking at it as I walk by. If I still like it I'm ready to commit to...the marker!
Chalk lines are always a little mushy. When I draw with a marker I'm refining my decisions about every curve. Those decisions are guided by my intention to have each curve flow into the next, harmoniously.
Next, I cut out the actual shapes using a jig saw. I'll use a router for the basic rounding over and then many hours of work using carving knives and a rasp. As I'm doing this I'm constantly asking myself if each curve is as beautiful as I can make it. In some places I want delicacy of form, in other areas a feeling of strength. I use my hands as much as my eyes; sometimes my hands 'see' something that my eyes have missed.
Done!